Haven't been playing the beta since I hate losing progress, but my friends tell me good things. Hopefully they streamline the crafting system. The gathering feels like it takes too long but the minigame isn't too bad. Only managed to get 1 class to max level and that was through power-leveling. Oh and their website for managing payment and stuff could be so much simpler than it is right now.

LOL! You should have seen version 1.0! Though in all honesty, as you level, you will get the option to craft and gather pretty much instantly with lower quality recipes/resources. On the flip side, trying to critical synth craft for +1 items are an exercise in patience and good judgement with your abilities use.

The gathering feels like it takes too long but the minigame isn't too bad.

I wonder how it compares to other games? There seems to be a lot of tradeskills. Hopefully they don't go the route of WoW where it's stupidly easy to powerlevel the thing. I really don't care for that model.

The crafting you have to play a mini-game too and it takes a minute or two. Also, unless you're doing crafting lleves you'll probably run out of mats fast, or at least that's in my experience(my crafting levels are all in the 20s). It's definitely not like WoW or Guild Wars 2 where you just stack mats and then just watch the bar go.

So the PS4 will be getting a console specific version of FFXIV:ARR. No footage was shown, but will hopefully be much closer to a high end PC version. Those folks who plan on getting a PS4 who were originally going to play on the PS3 may want to hold out for it, or hell get both versions ;p I know I am.

Anyway, just wanted to let folks who wanted to join up with Solaris for retail in FFXIV: ARR we have a poll going on our Facebook page for starting server. We are currently slated to be reborn on Hyperion (formerly known as Trabia) with the character import for beta phase 3, but we can opt for a world transfer before retail. Unfortunately since the majority of our current members are former players, we cannot include a "Beginner" world into the poll. However, this does not exclude new players from beginning on Legacy worlds.

If you'd like to join us, just do a Facebook search for "FFXIV - Solaris Free Company" and request to be added. I'm lookin' at you Raze o.O

I played pretty much long enough just to get legacy, so I guess someone say something when we get to the part of the beta where they no longer wipe. Kinda excite for the new class stuff. Maybe they can make questing more interesting too, they didn't draw me in very much before.